Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin!
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The smell of freshly cut grass is actually a plant distress call.
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All Humans Are 99.9% Genetically Identical and 98.4% of human genes are the same as the genes of a chimpanzee.
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The banana plant cannot reproduce itself. It can be propagated only by the hand of man.
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The brain case [of Neanderthals] on the average was more than 13 percent larger than that of the average of modern man
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Oxygen, carbon, hydrogen and nitrogen make up 90% of the human body.
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Only 12,000 years ago there was a species closely related to modern humans called Homo floresiensis that had been living on an Indonesian Island. They used fire and rather advanced tools, yet were only about 3 feet tall and weighed around 25kg.
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Balsa wood is classified as a hard wood!
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